On 03-Feb-00 Bill Smoldt wrote:
> And split it up, they should.  You shouldn't have a database this large
> unless you're from Texas.  We aren't Oracle database administrators, who all
> believe bigger is better.

  I'm glad we'r from Amsterdam and not from Texas... :)

> I think the current support recommendation is to keep it under 20G.  The
> last site I visited with a 50G+ database was taking too long to back up the
> database.

  Exactly. And I'm also glad we'r not in the top-10 of the biggest DB's, and
  I like to keep it that way....

> For those of you with large DBs - how is your DB backup time?

  Awful, that's for sure. And don't even think about restore and audit...

  Cheers,
  Henk (big DB's sucks, even in Texas)